The sport itself is pretty self explanatory and is probably a bit reminiscent of your days at the pool as a kid. Basically, the idea is to create the biggest splash while belly flopping onto the water from a diving board.

It’s kind of like Olympic diving but for regular people.

The sport is officially called Dødsing, or ‘Death Diving’ (its literal translation is ‘deathing’), and it basically just involves keeping your body as flat as possible from the moment you jump off the diving board, until just before you hit the water.

It doesn’t always have to be a belly flop, but it usually takes the form of one until the last moment when the athlete curls up to avoid injury.